Few little things i need help with!

[Ash98]

1) OK, my Windows XP goes through the loading bar 30 TIMES before it says welcome. It used to only go through 8 times on my old installation...

2)When I shutdown (not restart) my PC it says "It is now safe to turn off your computer" how do i change this?

3) My sound echos and is staticy...when someone signs in on msn the sound is slow, gets stuck inbetween the noise echoing and staticy and at the end it plays normally...Before it used to say "HHCTRL.OCX" has not been found so i replaced the file and i still get this problem!

Its an Acer Aspire One 8GB SSD (Speeded up with flash fire so its not slow xD) 512MB of ram Windows XP SP2 Nlited and it uses Realtek HD Audio Manager...I do not know the name of my speaker card but its an Aspire One A110. I get my drivers from here

If my speaker is broken, I have £250 to get a new one but all the ones with a CD drive (fed up of booting USBs) are over £250!

EDIT: Editing to correct spelling errors

Edited January 12, 2010 by Ash98

[Tripredacus]

As far as #2, this is going to be caused by your BIOS settings, the capabilities of your computer, or you removed something you needed with nLite. More infos:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903

The other problems you are having may also be from things you removed with nLite.

[Ash98]

Also it doesnt show my battery % even though i set it to laptop/portable

[Martin H]

1. Maybe you had pre-fetch disabled previously and not now? Disabling prefetch(application) generally speeds up startup(the loading bar runs through lesser times.)